California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime

“All of the pieces that are required to make it viable exist.”

Defense contractors are in full sales mode to win a piece of a potentially trillion-dollar pie for development of the Trump administration’s proposed Golden Dome missile shield.

CEOs are touting their companies’ ability to rapidly spool up satellite, sensor, and rocket production. Publicly, they all agree with the assertion of Pentagon officials that US industry already possesses the technologies required to make a homeland missile defense system work.

The challenge, they say, is tying all of it together under the umbrella of a sophisticated command and control network. Sensors must be able to detect and track missile threats, and that information must rapidly get to weapons that can shoot them down. Gen. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force’s top commander, likes to call Golden Dome a “systems of systems.”

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We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened

From scanning emails to building fansites, Atlas can ably automate some web-based tasks.

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced Atlas, a new web browser with ChatGPT integration, to let you “chat with a page,” as the company puts it. But Atlas also goes beyond the usual LLM back-and-forth with Agent Mode, a “preview mode” feature the company says can “get work done for you” by clicking, scrolling, and reading through various tabs.

“Agentic” AI is far from new, of course; OpenAI itself rolled out a preview of the web browsing Operator agent in January and introduced the more generalized “ChatGPT agent” in July. Still, prominently featuring this capability in a major product release like this—even in “preview mode”—signals a clear push to get this kind of system in front of end users.

I wanted to put Atlas’ Agent Mode through its paces to see if it could really save me time in doing the kinds of tedious online tasks I plod through every day. In each case, I’ll outline a web-based problem, lay out the Agent Mode prompt I devised to try to solve it, and describe the results. My final evaluation will rank each task on a 10-point scale, with 10 being “did exactly what I wanted with no problems” and one being “complete failure.”

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Ukraine: Vodafone umgeht Russland mit Kardesa-Seekabel

Die Vodafone Group baut zusammen mit einem Konzern aus Aserbaidschan ein neues Tiefseekabel. Es bringt weitere 500 Terabit pro Sekunde in die Schwarzmeerregion. (Seekabel, Vodafone)

Die Vodafone Group baut zusammen mit einem Konzern aus Aserbaidschan ein neues Tiefseekabel. Es bringt weitere 500 Terabit pro Sekunde in die Schwarzmeerregion. (Seekabel, Vodafone)